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All help posted for Firefox cannot load websites but other programs can fail, now what?

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ilikefree
ilikefree
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I have tried all the things listed but they made no difference at all. I have no problem with IE. I have been to this site before and it is a bookmarked site. This problem only came with the last update that never saved any of my search engines either. Can go to some sites but not others and I have been there before. Is it time to dump Firefox?

EDIT: One of the sites is speedtest.net, how crap is that?

I have tried all the things listed but they made no difference at all. I have no problem with IE. I have been to this site before and it is a bookmarked site. This problem only came with the last update that never saved any of my search engines either. Can go to some sites but not others and I have been there before. Is it time to dump Firefox? EDIT: One of the sites is speedtest.net, how crap is that?

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silkphoenix
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Please see if this article can help:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+cannot+load+websites+but+other+programs+can

And for search engines problem, please read this article:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved

ilikefree
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Big FAIL there as well. I have already tried all that. I also ran Moz Backup and that failed to help. I can google speedtest but when I click on the result in the search it times out. If I try from my bookmarks it also times out. I have about 80 bookmarks I use all the time I won't return to Firefox if this is the crap I get after updates. Not the first time I have had to start from the beginning. Why do they release this crap if it is not ready for us to use? I have already tried all the things listed as well as increasing the time out period. That just took longer to tell me it had timed out. RUBBISH

ilikefree
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Turning off my firewall did not help. Connection refused. I am able to go to Bata.speedtest.net but not speedtest.net I could last week with no problems at all. All support links at the bottom of this page time out as well I am sick of this crap, Time to switch browser I think as I am NOT going to do this crap every time Firefox finds a hole in their program. Looking at the help pages I am not the only person with this problem. There are hundreds with similar shit happening

Modified by ilikefree